On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:19 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I compared the Frank Sinatra and Keith Jarrett recordings of "In
The Wee Small Hours of the Morning." I admit that I was stunned at
how closely Keith's phrasing of the melody resembled Frank's -- I
don't think most people would ever think of Frank Sinatra as an
influence on Keith Jarrett.
That's an interesting statement -- I would think just the opposite:
That there would be very few jazz musicians of the later half of the
20th century who *weren't* influenced by Sinatra.
Heh, heh, now we're into interesting territory. I have heard many
jazz musicians (particularly black American jazz musicians) criticise
a phrasing of a melody by saying it was too "Frank Sinatra." I
suppose avoiding sounding like something is being influenced by it,
so you may be very right.
To me, Frank Sinatra was not a jazz musician at all: he was a
tin-pan-alley crooner, one of the last of them. It's true that people
used to use "jazz" to refer to any type of modern American popular
music--but that hasn't been the case for fifty or more years now!
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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